Position in chronology
SAA 12 051. Fragment of Aššur-etel-ilani Type Land Grant (ADD 0743)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 12(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......, Ṣi]l-[...] 1 vineyard, 3 hectares [of field ......] (2) [......] Labudi; 50 hectares of field in Liṣ[..., ......] (3) [......] Nargi; 20 hectares of field in the village of Šumma-šarru, [x] hectares of field in [..., ......] (4) [...... in ...]hini, 20 hectares of field in Ṭu'yati, 40 hectares [of field in ..., ......] (5) [...... in] its entirety in Que. Nabû-naṣir and [his] people, [......], (6) [......, Be]l-Harran-isse'a ditto, Tabni-Issar ditto, [......], (7) [......, ...]-Nanaya ditto and his brothers, Na[... ......], (8) [......, ...]huru ditto,…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 12 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Spotted an error? Suggest a correction — confirmed corrections feed the engine's knowledge base.
Transliteration
[x x x mx]-⸢il—dx 01?-en GIŠ.SAR GIŠ.til-lit 03 ANŠE⸣ [A.ŠÀ x x x] / [x x x] mla-bu-di 50 ANŠE A.ŠÀ ina URU.li?-iṣ? [x x x] / [x x x mna]-ar-gi 20 ANŠE A.ŠÀ ina URU.ŠE—mBE?-mu—MAN [x] ⸢ANŠE⸣ A.ŠÀ ina ⸢URU?⸣.[x x x x] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣-ḫi-ni 20 ANŠE A.ŠÀ ina URU.ṭu-uʾ-ia-ti 40 ANŠE [A.ŠÀ ina x x x x x] / [x x x a-na] ⸢gi⸣-mir-ti-šú ina KUR.qu-e mdPA—PAB a-di UN-[MEŠ-šú x x x x x x] / [x x x…
Scholarly note
Royal grant, decree or gift inscription of the Neo-Assyrian period, edited by Laura Kataja & Robert Whiting (SAA 12, 1995). ORACC text P335609.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335609). source
Translation excerpted from Kataja, L. & Whiting, R. 1995. Grants, Decrees and Gifts of the Neo-Assyrian Period. SAA 12. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa12/P335609/.
Related tablets
Related sources
An early example of administrative writing from Uruk. Its fragmentary numerical entries and commodity signs document record-keeping during the formative period of writing.
An early witness to systematic administrative notation at Kish. Its signs and numerals can be catalogued, but that does not establish a full translation or prove that it is the world's first writing.
An early surviving historical monument that joins named rulers, a territorial dispute and religious oaths. It shows how a city-state turned victory into a lasting public claim, without establishing that this was the first recorded conflict.